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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp
… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and celebration—of a commemorative … collections HERE . Stamp Artistry One of four in the American Arts series The Cather stamp was one of four in the …
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Guided Seasonal Tour
… Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts … drawn readers into this classic novel for more than 100 years. As part of our NEA Big Read programming, guests are … W. 3rd Street This is the site where Anna Sadilek Pavelka’s first child was baptized and where Anna was married. This …
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Cather Sesquicentennial
… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are … the Willa Cather Foundation’s Campaign for the Future . Book clubs and teachers around the country are encouraged to … from Cather's fiction, journalism, and letters written or set in Pittsburgh between 1896 and 1929 • Birthday cookies …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!
… on several guided tours, including our new My Ántonia tour. Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season! Explore • … cities in Europe where I used to love to go . . ." -Willa Cather in a letter to Carrie Miner Sherwood While Willa … trip. We offer a variety of guided historic site tours, lodging, and events year round at the National Willa Cather …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia
… Image Image NEA Big Read: My Ántonia Programs Offered to Communities and Organizations … Ántonia When critic Randolph Bourne heralded My Ántonia in 1918 as the arrival of the “American novel,” he could not …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting
… status as a literary pilgrimage destination for more than fifty years. Just six months after the house reopened on Willa … with a sloping ceiling, like my 'rose-bower' in our old first home. Do you remember?" —Cather in a 1945 letter to …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens
… The site closed on August 15, 2022 to facilitate the first comprehensive restoration in more than fifty years. A modest one-and-a-half story frame house, the Willa …
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The Potter Family
… R. Potter who seyenty-one years ago sat awed by the magic oratory of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas died … him are five children: E. L. and E. R. Potter, Wilcox; Mrs Ora Hutchinson, Morrill; Mrs. F. Stevens, Orleans; N. F. … were men of exceptionally good habits and of a high moral character. They all lived to be 80 years of age or …
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Willa Cather Biography
… of her own birthplace, rural northern Virginia, in Sapphira and the Slave Girl . In the mid-1930s, having returned to Nebraska from …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway
… and conservation projects without expending tax dollars and requires a dollar-for-dollar match in non-federal donations. …
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